Otter Creek township, Crawford County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (56% naturalized citizens)
| Otter Creek township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
69% of Otter Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 61% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1146
- Northeast: 9
- Midwest: 117
- South: 31
- West: 33
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $41,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 590
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 6
- 3 or 4: 19
- 5 to 9: 20
- 20 to 49: 4
- 50 or more: 2
- Mobile homes: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $15,000
Housing units in Otter Creek township with a mortgage: 200 (21 second mortgage, 7 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 216
- Food (23%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (12%)
- Construction (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Food (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Construction (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (10%)
- Farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Otter Creek township:
- German (59.3%)
- Swedish (10.6%)
- United States or American (8.2%)
- English (5.2%)
- Irish (2.9%)
- Dutch (1.8%)
- Norwegian (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (56%)
- Mexico (44%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 479 (77%)
- Carpooled: 88 (14%)
- Bicycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 15 (2%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 31 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (50%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (30%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Wood (3%)
95.5% of residents of Otter Creek township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (78% speak English very well, 22% speak English well).
2.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (94% speak English very well, 6% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,349- In family households: 1,123 (347 male householders, 34 female householders)
339 spouses, 363 children (326 natural, 7 adopted, 30 stepchildren), 13 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 8 other relatives, 14 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 226 (83 male householders (68 living alone)), 110 female householders (103 living alone)), 33 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 214 2-persons, 55 3-persons, 60 4-persons, 36 5-persons, 13 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 171 1-person, 16 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
249 married couples with children.
64 single-parent households (12 men, 52 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
| Here: | 4.5% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
| Here: | 28.6% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |